Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1725
Episode Date: April 20, 2023Jason hosts another pitch competition featuring two startups from our Founder University program! Apply for Founder University: https://course.founder...
Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology. He also interviews the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.
1403 episodes transcribedJason hosts another pitch competition featuring two startups from our Founder University program! Apply for Founder University: https://course.founder...
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Satya Patel joins Jason to discuss the economics of being a self-funded GP and the structure of their fund (6:51). Then, they have an all-encompassing...
Jason hosts another pitch competition featuring three startups from our Founder University program! Apply for Founder University: https://course.found...
First up, Jason touches on Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund disclosing which VC firms it has made LP investments in (2:48), which leads to him po...
Jason kicks off the show by breaking down clips from a recent conversation between Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Adam Neumann about Saudi Arabia’...
Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Research joins Jason for an all-encompassing conversation about AI, from the history of neural nets (7:53) to how modern ai...
Vinny Lingham joins Jason to break down the state of crypto’s de-platforming by the US government. They discuss recent happenings with Coinbase (2:13)...
Jason hosts another pitch competition featuring three startups from our Founder University program! Apply for Founder University: https://course.found...
Producer Rachel joins Jason to break down the latest tech news. They cover AOC's arguments against banning TikTok (2:29), Alibaba's six-way sp...
Jason starts the show by discussing First Citizens acquiring SVB’s assets (2:03) before diving into a Reddit post detailing how generative AI changed...
Acquired co-hosts Ben and David are BACK to discuss the state of the VC market and YC shutting down its Continuity Fund (6:20) before diving into indu...